Editing Infanticide (section)

===England and Wales===
In England and Wales there were typically 30 to 50 homicides per million children less than 1 year old between 1982 and 1996.<ref name=Marks2009>{{cite journal | journal = Psychiatry | doi = 10.1016/j.mppsy.2008.10.017 | title = Infanticide | volume = 8 | issue = 1 | pages = 10–12 | author = Maureen Marks | url = http://www.psychiatryjournal.co.uk/article/S1476-1793(08)00217-6/abstract | year = 2009 | access-date = 8 September 2011 | archive-date = 4 December 2019 | archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20191204175114/http://www.psychiatryjournal.co.uk/article/S1476-1793(08)00217-6/abstract | url-status = live }}</ref> The younger the infant, the higher the risk.<ref name=Marks2009 /> The rate for children 1 to 5 years was around 10 per million children.<ref name=Marks2009 /> The homicide rate of infants less than 1 year is significantly higher than for the general population.<ref name=Marks2009 />

In [[English law]] infanticide is established as a distinct offence by the [[Infanticide Act]]s. Defined as the killing of a child under 12 months of age by their mother, the effect of the Acts are to establish a [[partial defence]] to charges of murder.<ref>{{cite journal |vauthors=Craig M |title=Perinatal risk factors for neonaticide and infant homicide: can we identify those at risk? |pmc=1079289 |pmid=14749398 |volume=97 |issue=2 |date=Feb 2004 |pages=57–61 |journal=J R Soc Med |doi=10.1177/014107680409700203}}</ref>